illicit Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Remember your first kiss? Experiments in mice suggest that patterns of chemical "caps" on our DNA may be responsible for preserving such memories. To remember a particular event, a specific sequence of neurons must fire at just the right time. For this to happen, neurons must be connected in a certain way by chemical junctions called synapses..:uhh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlight Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 So what ? Useless thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyTarget Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 It took you a while to make your first post. AGES ago you sent me an odd visitor message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenegadeRoss Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 im sure this is the third thread made by this person, ive deleted 2 already that were just weird. What on earth is this all about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanguis Dominus Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 I dunno, but I'm willing to bet it has something to do with some very persuasive internal voices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyTarget Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Another spammer perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlight Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Nope. I saw his profile, and he has been talking to people ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenegadeRoss Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 aye and also has "my heart is yours" in their sig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlight Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 That's why you didn't locked the thread, uh Ross ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyTarget Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 That means nothing. Maybe he wants us to become interested in Science? xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenegadeRoss Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 That's why you didn't locked the thread, uh Ross ? haha i thought it was strange, but i just left it cause technically there is nothing wrong with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanguis Dominus Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Here's something that'll get y'thinking. If our memories are stored in our DNA, those memories could be transfered and stored elsewhere, and placed into an identical clone, would we be immortal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenegadeRoss Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Good point! That does get ya thinking Im pretty happy that most of my favourite memories are all on video, mostly to do with football and music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorgi Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Memories can be lost, though, even without the traumatising experience of being cloned. The length of time it would take to create a clone with "our" DNA, we would have formed more memories and the memories that were "cloned" would have decayed or been displaced seeing as we have no reliable way of retrieving verbal or semantic information until our brains reach a certain stage in development- usually about 4 years. Visual memories would probably last but without the semantic knowledge of what these images are they would be useless, surely ? SO. ...It wouldn't work. anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanguis Dominus Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 That wasn't really the question, though, not whether it would be possible or not. The question assumes it was. Everything you've learned, everything you've experienced would be copied exactly. Would you still be you, or would you be dead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorgi Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 As in, immediatly cloned to your exact physical state at the same age etc. ? if so, at the immediate point, you would be you, but from any point further than that the "clone" would no longer be you. Decisions made from that point on, or even decisions made by other people towards you (clone) would make you different from the original. You can predict the clones movements based on previous experiences and memories if they are exact, but never another person's in relation to who they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanguis Dominus Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 As in, immediatly cloned to your exact physical state at the same age etc. ?if so, at the immediate point, you would be you, but from any point further than that the "clone" would no longer be you. Decisions made from that point on, or even decisions made by other people towards you (clone) would make you different from the original. You can predict the clones movements based on previous experiences and memories if they are exact, but never another person's in relation to who they are. But if the clone's entire physical and mental make up is exactly the same as yours, nothing is different, except their vital organs are still working, would that not be the same as having your consciousness transfered? Another good way of putting it, is in Star Trek, or Stargate, or other things where they use transporting technology that breaks your atoms up and reassembles them exactly the same as they were, but on the other side, does the original you die, only to be replaced by something indestinguishable from the real you, or is it still the real you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorgi Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 are you assuming that there is a clone and then you ? or once the clone is established, the other "you" ceases to exist ? If two of the "same" person were created and there continued to be these 2 people, their experiences would change who they were and they would no longer be each other. If however your "consciousness" or whatever is transferred, like teleporting or whatever... then i think "you" would still continue to live. if they're simply moved from one place to another, then i think it would stay constant, but then it would be so hard to gauge because there's no control to compare it to surely ? If your consciousness was copied, you'd change as a result. (jeesh this is hard to put into words). there's no way to really answer the question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanguis Dominus Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Assuming that the real you ceases to exist at the exact moment the "clone" is made. It is really hard to say, though, lol. As I said, it gets y'thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorgi Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Then you'd still be you. THEREWEGO. Hah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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